Uhuru is a tribalist and knows nothing - Raila

Monday March 26, 2012 - Prime Minister Raila Odinga on Sunday led scathing attacks on the GEMA meeting in Limuru that endorsed Uhuru’s quest for the presidency, claiming the rich from the Gikuyu, Embu and Meru communities have regrouped to hold the poor within Central Kenya to an "ethnic chauvinism philosophy".

Referring to the Limuru Convention meeting where Uhuru marshaled support of the GEMA communities behind his tribulations with ICC, Raila asked Uhuru to stop whipping up tribal emotions with meetings in his political backyard.

Raila expressed depress  that a "group sits down and throws its weight behind an individual who does not even know the party on whose ticket he will run for the General Election."

"He has no policies but wants to run simply because of his tribe," the PM said.

The Prime Minister also told his supporters that his rivals had resorted to ethnic groupings and accused Uhuru Kenyatta of seeking the presidency without stating his political party.

"I challenge our opponents to stop ethnic mobilisation and hate," Raila said in apparent reference the Friday’s GEMA meeting.

"I cannot take Luos and tell them to unite and put me in power. I am supposed to be a president for all Kenyans,"   furious PM said

Raila was speaking in Kamukunji grounds, Kibera, at a public rally for his constituents.

The Kenyan DAILY POST